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Quotations by Subject: Mankind (28 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.: M. Cartmill
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.: Alice James
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
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